If you are having problems registering for courses that are not chemical engineering courses, go to the Registrar’s Office located in the Wahtera Center in the Admin building.

Also check out our FAQ’s on the right hand side of the page for answers to many common questions.

Now through Finals Week

I am in the office Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of most weeks and am usually available 9:30am-3pm. Appointments are recommended and take priority over drop-ins. To set up an appointment, schedule a meeting with me using your Google calendar. Any of the blank times are available. A half hour meeting is usually enough time. Don’t forget to invite me to the meeting.

Summer Advising:

The advising office is closed in the summer and will reopen two weeks before fall semester starts. If you have a pressing issue during the summer, call the department office at 906-487-3132.

In the spring semester there is one section of CH 1161 University Chemistry Lab II and one section of CH 1163 University Chemistry Recitation II that is reserved for only chemistry majors, which is not us. This section is indicated under “course comments” when you click on the CRN for any of the lab or recitation sections.

You will need to choose a different section of CH 1161 and/or CH 1163.

Note that CH 1163 U Chem II recitation is recommended because of positive feedback we’ve received from students who have taken it. They tell us that it is even more helpful than U Chem I recitation because U Chem II is more new material and less review of high school chemistry topics than U Chem I. If you choose to take U Chem II recitation then it can count towards your free elective requirement.

It is *extremely* important that you contact Transfer Services in the Registrar’s Office to verify that the course will transfer the way that you intend before you take the course. You will need to provide the name of the school that you plan to attend and a copy of the course description for verification. For more information regarding transferring classes, go to the Registrar’s Office webpage and click on Transfer Services.

During the summer, priority is given to issues in need of immediate attention because there are only limited advising hours. If you have a pressing issue during the summer, email cmadvise@mtu.edu. Regular advising hours will start two weeks before falls semester starts.

During the school year, if you need help with schedule planning, minors, co-ops, study abroad, changing majors, or degree audits then you will need to schedule an appointment with Katie Torrey (Chem Sci room 202M) using your Michigan Tech Google calendar. Advising appointments are usually 30 minutes long. Appointments will not be available during busy times; instead, there are scheduled walk-in office hours during busy weeks, and no appointment is necessary.

All students have the option to either take CM 1000 Introduction to Chemical Engineering or a core engineering technical elective. We recommend CM 1000 when it can be taken either before or at the same time as CM 2110 Fundamentals of ChE 1. If you have already completed CM 2110, then we recommend a core engineering technical elective instead. The list of approved core engineering technical electives can be found on the Technical Elective Handout .

Transfer students coming in with at least 50 credits and credit for MA 3160 Multivariable Calculus with Technology have the option to either take the first-year engineering courses ENG 1101 and ENG 1102, or substitute courses.

If you are planning to do a substitute course, then see the Chemical Engineering advisor to have the adjustment made to your degree audit.

An acceptable substitute course for ENG 1101 is a programming course (CS 1121 or CM 3450 are approved).

CS 1121 Introduction to Programming I – 3 credits; the starting point of the computer science program; Fall, Spring, Summer

An acceptable substitute course for ENG 1102 is any non-research course on the core engineering technical electives list (found on the Technical Electives Handout). In particular, the courses below are recommended:

In order to have your project approved for senior design, you will need to complete a Petition to Request CM 4861 Design Substitution. If your project is through the Enterprise program, then you will be petitioning the second semester course, ENT 4960, as a sub for CM 4861.

The petition form and project abstract are due to the CM Advising Office by Friday of Week 4 of Fall semester. You may drop the materials off in the CM Department Office to be put in the advisor’s mailbox. The department’s lead design instructor and ABET committee will be reviewing all petitions on Monday of Week 5 for final approval. If several students are working on the same project, you may submit one abstract for the team with your individual petitions attached.

The ENT 4950 and ENT 4960 courses are reserved for students who are using an Enterprise project for their senior design project.

You will be allowed to register for ENT 4950 during the regular fall registration period that opens in March. You will need department permission from the advising office before enrolling and must have started in the Enterprise no later than spring of your junior year. You will also need to have already completed or be concurrently enrolled in CM 4855 . Subsequently, during early fall semester you will need to submit an abstract detailing your project to have your project approved for senior design. You must complete both ENT 4950 and ENT 4960 for the project to qualify for the senior design substitution.

Both CM 4855 CM Process Analysis & Design I (fall) and CM 4860 CM Process Analysis & Design 2 (spring) are required for all chemical engineering students. For approved projects, one credit from ENT 4960 substitutes for CM 4861. The additional three credits that you earn from ENT 4950 and ENT 4960 can be used towards your technical electives or free electives. If your project is not approved at the abstract stage, then you will need to take CM 4861 CM Design Laboratory 2 in the spring semester.

When you run your degree audit on Banweb you will see a screen that says “Select Degree Program”. Keep the default selection of “Latest” to run your degree audit with the correct catalog year.

If you select a major from the drop-down list then this will run what is called a “What-if Audit”. The what-if audits are for students who are considering changing majors and always run with the most current catalog year.

There are a number of classes that have multiple parts (a lecture, recitation, and/or lab), and you must enroll in all of the parts to register for the class. If you only register for one part you will get a registration error that says “Linked Course Required”. If you look at the section column when you search for classes (labeled “Sec”), the lecture sections are lettered (0A, 0B, etc.), the recitation sections start with an R (R01, R02, etc.), and the lab sections start with an L (L01, L02, etc.). All of the parts of a single course will have the same course number.

For example to enroll in CM 3215, Transport Lab, you must register for both the lecture and lab portions:

Some classes instead require a “co-requisite”. This means that you must sign up for both classes (different course numbers) or you will get a “Linked Course Required” error. Classes that require co-requisites include: CH 1150/CH 1151, CH 1160/CH 1161, and MA 2321/MA 3521.